Émile Oustalet

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Dr Jean-Frédéric Émile Oustalet (August 24, 1844October 23, 1905) was a French zoologist.

Oustalet was born at Montbéliard, in the department of Doubs. He was employed at the Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle, where he succeeded Jules Verreaux as assistant-naturalist in 1873. In 1900 he succeeded Alphonse Milne-Edwards as Professor of Mammalogy.

He co-authored Les Oiseaux de la Chine (1877) with Armand David, and also wrote Les Oiseaux du Cambodge (1899).

Oustalet was president of the third International Ornithological Congress held in Paris in 1900.


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